The Cause And Effects Of Procrastination

The term “positive feedback loop” describes a rather interesting phenomenon where the cause produces the effect, and the effect enhances the cause, which in turn produces even more effects. This interesting relationship creates a loop where the causes and effects are infinitely increasing the magnitude of each other. Procrastination does exactly that: people who procrastinate often get carried away, and then they lose interest on the topic, which in turn causes them to procrastinate even more. In general, procrastinating can devastating for someone because he or she becomes stressed, makes poor quality work, and all of these will eventually lead to lousy grades.

For nearly all academic subjects, studying is the backbone support for one’s achievement in that field, and the very first thing that procrastinating will damage. When I was taking Advanced Placement (AP) Biology in 10th grade, I skipped a lot of reading. Even though I had always loved biology with a passion, and I was able to keep up with the enormous amount of information we had to memorize for the first few weeks of class, that passion was still overwhelmed by the amount of house chores, lengthy meetings for our academic competition team, and homework from my other

and results in lousy work. To this end, procrastination also plays a major role on students’ bad grades. We can easily infer that all my failures to study led to unacceptable grades. As for the AP Biology and United States Government courses mentioned earlier, the tests were about 30 percent of my grade. And as you can guess, my grades dropped like stones falling from the top of a skyscraper after each test. Additionally, my legal guardian Joel, for example, had a strong hatred for the much dreaded math. Like most people who hated math, he loathed the very thought of studying for it, but to pass his class, he would need to study. The